Puerto Rico cocaine gains access to US

Increasingly thwarted by law enforcement crackdowns and continuing violence among drug gangs on the United States-Mexico border, drug smugglers are opting to move their merchandise through Puerto Rico instead.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/us/in-puerto-rico-cocaine-gains-access-to-us.html?emc=edit_th_20140530&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;nlid=68163943